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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- p. 28
- Which of the 10 break-up lines are the best/worst? What are some other typical break-up lines you’ve heard or used?
- blunt: direct and honest, without concern for anyone’s feelings
- soften the blow: to make an unhappy truth a bit easier to hear
- “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
- hath = has
- scorned = disrespected, rejected, dismissed
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- p. 28-29 reading
- 1 dumped
- 2 turning
- 3 ridiculed
- 4 replaced
- 5 unwillingly
- 6 posted
- 7 created
- 8 crowning
- 9 get over
- 10 took
- 11 set about
- 12 stamped on
- “Dear John letter” - a letter a woman writes to break up with her husband, John (John is a very typical, generic name in English)
- catfishing - pretending to be someone else (usually someone more attractive) on a dating or social networking site in order to get responses
- “Don’t get mad, get even.” = take revenge and “balance” the situation
- -> “Don’t get mad, get everything.” = get even by taking everything in the divorce
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- p. 29 part 2a
- 1 faux pas - “false step”, socially = a social mistake (you said or did something unintentionally rude)
- 2 deja vu - the feeling that you’ve experienced something before
- 3 avant-garde - new, experimental, cutting-edge (especially with music)
- 4 entrepreneur - owner of a business (especially a business this person started)
- 5 cliche - typical, stereotypical, not original
- 6 bouquet - bunch of flowers (can also mean the collection of smells of a perfume or wine)
- 7 fiance - the man someone is going to marry (fiancee = the woman)
- a la mode = with ice cream on top
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- Homework: find a love song or love poem in your language, which you will briefly explain in class
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